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You can spare me your faux outrage over the DA likening the EFF to Nazi brown shirts. Do know why? Two reasons: 1.) the comparison is scarily accurate – they are indeed a bunch of fascists-in-training, and 2.) your outrage is selective and most likely all for show.
You didn’t give a hoot when others were calling the EFF Nazi fascists, or likening Malema to a young Hitler. Maybe you were even nodding along. But this is the DA, and this calls for you to join the outrage parade. So spare me.
But who said those horrible things about the EFF and Malema, I hear you ask in mock indignation? Well the good news is I have some examples at hand. Stand by.
“Hitler started with the Jews as scapegoats. In the EFF’s case whites, Indians and ‘non-Africans’ in general are Malema’s scapegoats.” – Ismail Lagardien https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2019-12-18-with-echoes-of-adolf-hitler-julius-malema-makes-his-move-to-establish-an-african-reich/
“In a nutshell, the EFF is a modern fascist party that pursues the same-old national-socialist ideology through violence under the spell of a personality cult.” – Prince Mashele https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2018-07-02-effs-fascist-agenda--rapidly-clarifies-itself-through-malemas-racial-outbursts/
This blog post draws many comparisons. https://medium.com/@cassiusc/black-nazis-the-scary-link-between-the-eff-and-hitler-5591197294df
“The EFF is also no different from the proto-fascist movements in Western Europe and the United States.” – Adam Habib
https://www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-news/general-news/2018/2018-03/is-ramaphosas-anc-managing-the-challenge-from-the-eff.html
https://www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-news/general-news/2018/2018-03/is-ramaphosas-anc-managing-the-challenge-from-the-eff.html
“The EFF is a fascist party and Malema is a fascist. South Africans need to begin to reconcile themselves with that fact.” – Gareth van Onselen
https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/why-eff-fascist-political-party-gareth-van-onselen-26-march-2018
https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/why-eff-fascist-political-party-gareth-van-onselen-26-march-2018
“Here before our eyes, not Eugene Terreblanche as honourable Mmusi Maimane suggested earlier on, but Adolf Hitler has come back from the dead." – Buti Manamela https://ewn.co.za/2014/07/24/Malema-is-like-Adolf-hitler
His dangerous promises to desperate people were reminiscent of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Italian fascist Benito Mussolini ahead of the second world war, Ramphele told an audience of high school students in Polokwane, South Africa. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/07/south-africa-julius-malema-politician-mamphela-ramphele
“For Mein Kampf Damaso has drawn over a photograph of a fiery Malema addressing a rally, adding a Hitler moustache and fringe.” https://www.news24.com/news24/archives/city-press/Heil-Juju-Malema-not-fussed-about-being-portrayed-as-Hitler-20150429
Or this one from Sikonathi Mantshantsha. https://twitter.com/SikonathiM/status/970386979706851330?s=20
I’m sure there are many more. You can look them up, I’ve lost interest. The point is your outrage over the DA’s statement rings hollow. If it only offends you the minute the DA says it, then your agenda is probably a little more transparent than you think it is.
